James Smith
William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office: C319G E-Quad
Phone: 609-258-4615
Research Interests: Hydrology, hydraulics and hydrometeorology of extreme floods; development of technologies for measuring rainfall from weather radar; stochastic modeling of the space-time structure of rainfall and microphysical studies of extreme rainfall from organized systems of thunderstorms; examined the heterogeneity of hydrologic response in urbanizing watersheds; the stability of the channel-floodplain system in urban drainage networks and the hydraulics of extreme floods in urban rivers